New Future

by Laura Gaskell In contemporary society, the pressure on working mothers has reached an unsustainable level. The dual demands of professional responsibilities and domestic duties create a relentless cycle of work that leaves little room for rest, self-care, or personal fulfilment. The mental load—

By Echo Fortune, Ally Nuttall and Paris Wilder When the British Supreme Court ruling, stripping Equality Act protections from transgender people, landed in April 2025, it came as a shock to many allies of the trans community. For most trans people who have not given up all hope and turned away fro

by Paul Murphy “ Video footage of Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to the Dáil in April 2022 shows that she didn’t applaud the Ukrainian president. She insists she did”, Mary Regan writes in the Sunday Independent . If you check the video footage yourself, here , at 14.19, it is ab

RISE’s 4th annual Ecosocialist Summer Camp was held in Knockree, Wicklow with over 90 members, comrades, and friends attending throughout the weekend. We were delighted that, for the first time, a majority of the campers were women and nonbinary people. This reflects a growing radicalisation of youn

By Diana O’Dwyer Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, governments in Ireland and across the EU have used the war to justify massive increases in military spending and renewed attacks on neutrality. EU military spending jumped 30% between 2021 and 2024. Even larger increases are

By Robin Koenig “Robot trees” sound like something you’d find in a Philip K Dick or William Gibson novel, a way of highlighting the absurdity of some high tech futuristic setting, and how it has been completely cut off from nature. Indeed, this idea is also used for comedic effect in an episode of

Paris Marx is a tech critic, author, podcaster, and international speaker. He hosts the podcasts ‘Tech Won’t Save Us’ and ‘System Crash’, writes the newsletter Disconnect, and is the author of Road to Nowhere. We reached out to him to ask his thoughts on AI, what are the problems with it and why the

What does socialist practice mean in the event of a new leftwing party? by Jonas Marvin Zarah Sultana’s resignation from the Labour Party has brought the burning question of a new leftwing political formation right to the very centre stage of everyone’s minds. Last year’s election of five in

by Paul Murphy Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “There is a long-standing tradition on the far left of rejecting new technologies, and it has been proven wrong time and time again in that regard. ” Me: “Like what? What are you talking about? ” Varadkar: “The Luddites for a start. ” If history i

RISE member Robin Koenig responds to the decision of the Red Network to leave People Before Profit, and reiterates the need to build a radical and pluralist ecosocialist party. On the 9th of June, 2025, the Red Network, one of the three organised networks within People Before Profit - the others b

by Liam de Buitléar For those of us on the left, the effect of art, particularly music, can often be an underappreciated influence on many of us. People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has often mentioned how his love of punk and ska music influenced his politics when he was younger. For mys

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By Diana O’Dwyer We invite readers to submit a short story imagining what a socialist future or revolutionary transformation may look like. We do this to spark ideas and debate, and to inspire readers to take the first steps towards this future by getting involved in the struggle for socialism. S

In recognition of an important contribution to the analysis of emerging far-right forces internationally, Rupture is seeking reviews and articles engaging with Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization . Seymour explores the troubling rise of ‘disast